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Big Surprises Unlikely for NATO

Updated Nov. 4, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Donald Kagan's morality story ("Locarno's Lessons for NATO ," editorial page, Oct. 28) fails as history, in that nobody would know from his article that the Versailles Treaty in 1919 limited the Reichswehr to 100,000, a force too small to threaten France, let alone world peace. As long as Germany valued its international relations, especially trade with Britain and France, this provision was observed.

Prof. Kagan is rather hard on Britain since even had the security guarantee been there from the start, Britain...